SISTERS, OR -- A 63-year-old hiker was rescued from the Three Creek Wilderness after he suffered a potentially serious medical issue, Saturday afternoon.

Dennis Crowell, of Bend, was with a group of five, hiking an unmaintained trail in the Snow Creek drainage system. A Deschutes County Search and Rescue team responded to the area and brought the man back to the Park Meadow Trailhead on a wheeled litter. Sisters Fire medics then transported him to the hospital.